salvation as an actual reversal on a grand scale, in which the regular guests would be left out in the cold, while the halt and blind were gathered from the highways and hedges to enjoy the fat things.1 No man would have laid on the colors in the opening description of Dives at his feasting and Lazarus among the dogs as Jesus did,2 who had not felt vividly the gulf that separates the social classes. If that parable came from the lips of Jesus, that is enough to mark his social spirit. Ex ungue leonem.